>Demand for an overseas education has spawned a cottage industry of businesses in China that help students prepare their applications. The industry is poorly regulated and fraud is rampant. According to Zinch China, an education consulting company, 90 percent of Chinese applicants submit fake recommendations, 70 percent have other people write their essays, 50 percent have forged high school transcripts, and 10 percent list academic awards and other achievements they did not receive. As a result, many students arrive in the U.S. and find that their English isn’t good enough to follow lectures or write papers.
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Google Translate provides the following:
>In the survey, we found that the main reason was expelled classified into the following nine kinds: poor academic performance (57.56%), academic dishonesty (22.98%), attendance problems (9.67%), misconduct (3.87%), international student identity (2.96%), in violation of the law (1.93%), psychological problems (0.57%), financial problems (0.23%) and Shen learn material legacy issues (0.23%). Some were expelled from reason There is a causal relationship between the links. But the statistics, we tend to count the cause and expelled most direct contact.
That's not what that article claims. You cannot conflate poor grades and cheating. The article intentionally misleads by just listing % for all reasons that Chinese student are expelled and then hints (without outright saying) the reason must be cheating, it couldn't be for example poor English skills? Or a ton of other problems international students might have (e.g. cultural adaption)?
I don't know if Chinese students cheat more (I don't have that data, and the article doesn't supply it). But I do know that Americans spend a lot of time writing anti-Chinese stuff and it is getting pretty pathetic.